Investigation into Batmand-0.3.2 Protocol Performance in an Indoor Mesh Potato Testbed

The paper describes the performance of the B.A.T.M.A.N daemon (Batmand) protocol in an indoor Mesh Potato (MP) testbed. The MPs are small devices used for voice communications over the wireless medium but can also support data. The MPs along with the Batmand protocol are used to bring cheap telephony to rural areas. However there are no performance tests that show the quality of the service provided by the MPs and the Batman protocols. The experiments performed in this paper look at jitter, delay, packet loss and throughput in order to understand the MPs network performance. This work is an extension on an earlier work. This work adds to the initial work by providing more results and more conclusive conclusions. This work is an extension on an earlier work. This work adds to the initial work by providing more results and more conclusive conclusions. The experiments used packets of different sizes over an increasing number of hops. The data collected is analyzed and the network performance given the scenarios we present is observed. Furthermore, comparisons are made between the data obtained from the experiments and the ITU-Recommendation G.114 to see if the results from the experiments fall within the recommended boundaries.